Bruce writes:
> And meanwhile, there are a whole bunch of pissed-off people out
> there with a recent copy of your source code who _want_ your product
> to fail.
Brian Bartholomew writes:
| Suppose the incremental changes between libre and proprietary versions
| were UI-tuning, end-user documentation, and gratuitous incompatibility.
| The free community would have to be amazingly PO'ed to compete.
A generic class of examples: University research where the professor
freely releases the obscure, undocumented, quirky, buggy version to
support his academic results, then puts a month of cleanup into a
polished proprietary version.
A member of the League for Programming Freedom (LPF) http://lpf.ai.mit.edu
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